Thursday, February 24, 2011

I just love the Lost and Found Collection by MME. The LO I posted last session came together so easily that I tried another one with the same papers. The second LO definitely did not come together easily but with perseverance I created a page that I am very happy with. I used the Pink Paisley ribbon to make a flower and I feel that the colour and texture work really well - I was thrilled to finally be able to use that beautiful silver grey ribbon to good advantage. See what you think.

FYI I had the LO all but finished and as I was applying the final touches I realised that somehow I had purple ink on my hand and I merrily had smudged it over my work - AHHHHH! Well after painting, sanding, tearing, resewing and some covering I hope that none of you can see those dreaded purple splotches. I still have no idea where the purple ink came from!!!! Oh the joys of working in a mess.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Hi Bloggers,
Sorry for the break between posts. We have been away in Canada skiing in beautiful Whistler for 2 weeks. I have taken lots and lots of photos for lots and lots of LO and I am dying to put them together. The last day that we skied was minus 15 degrees Celsius and now we are back in Aus in the midst of a record breaking heat wave with temperatures today threatening to spike at 42 degrees Celsius. I hope you are all staying cool and scrapping in lovely air conditioned rooms.

The latest Scrapbooking Memories magazine arrived the other day and they were kind enough to publish a double layout that I created telling the tale of a lovely Summer holiday weekend on the river that we had last Summer.

I was playing around with some of the beautiful Echo Park papers in the series Summertime. I felt the LO was going really well until I added some doodling which in my opinion was a complete disaster. I tore the doodling off where I could and covered it with paper where it couldn't be torn. I redid the LO with the remnants and then reattempted doodling. Not sure what I think of the result given I know how nice the original was but I'll post it anyway. The LO represents a creative journey if nothing else and I do love the photo of Tiff.